By not speaking up, we become complicit

Regarding your Aug. 14 report, "Code of Silence; No-snitch mentality sign of the times," this is an attempt to cover crime and make it "honorable" to protect the guilty.

Regarding your Aug. 14 report, "Code of Silence; No-snitch mentality sign of the times," this is an attempt to cover crime and make it "honorable" to protect the guilty.

How would you like to be the innocent or victimized person who gets no justice because those who have been guilty of crimes — or who anticipate they may someday be guilty — try to make it "honorable" to protect and cover up crimes?

Trying to make honest evidence a disgrace is really an attempt to subvert justice, often causing an innocent to pay the penalty. Saying nothing is not equal to doing nothing. In this case, saying nothing is really the equivalent of bearing false witness.